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Students from around the world are attending a summer university on Hungarology in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged, programme manager Agnes Bata said on Monday.
July 26, 2010
The Hungarian city of Pécs, a 2010 European Capital of Culture, is hosting the Bridges World Conference: Mathematical connections in arts, music, science and culture on July 24-28.
July 24, 2010
Parno Graszt, the Hungarian band whom Songlines magazine called “the source of Gypsy music”, performed for several hundred fans at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday.
July 23, 2010
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, 29th August – 21st November, 2010) has been awarded to the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas.
July 22, 2010
The organisers of the Sziget Festival, a week-long musical extravaganza on an island in the Danube, are teaming up with the local unit of mobile communications company Vodafone to keep festival-goers connected.
July 20, 2010
The city of Miskolc’s Museum of Theatre History and Actors is opening the first of many planned temporary exhibitions in its newly renovated ground level wing.
July 20, 2010
Hungary's southwestern city of Pecs, a European capital of culture this year, will be the guest of honour at the annual Anna Ball in Balatonfured at tourist hot spot Lake Balaton on July 24.
July 18, 2010
Pécs will host a week-long European youth culture week from Sunday, an event held since 1988 in cities that set up heritage protection groups joining the initiative.
July 18, 2010
A group exhibition featuring graphic design, a team of sculptors and works by a British painter will open in southern Hungary's Szeged on Friday, one of the organisers told MTI.
July 18, 2010
Kőszeg, Miskolc, Veszprém, Pécs, Ózd, Eger and Budapest are some of the stops on Sylvia Sass’s summer tour of fourteen Hungarian cities this summer. She will also lead master classes. The singer divides her days between Budapest and France but is always pleased to perform at home. Next to music and art, writing plays an increasingly important role in her life and she will soon have her acting debut.
July 18, 2010
“We are Motörhead and we play rock’n’roll” – that legendary concert opening line was heard in Hungary not for the first time. This year the 35-year-old group showed the crowds at Hegyalja Festival what simple and raw rock music is.
July 18, 2010
Hungarian director Dénes Orosz’s romantic comedy Polygamy will compete at the European Film Festival Palic, Serbia, on July 17-23.
July 17, 2010
The Nikola Parov Quartet with singer Ágnes Herczku will appear at the 6th Hiiumaai International Folklore Festival in Estonia this weekend.
July 17, 2010
sporaarchitects has become the first Hungarian architects office to be included in British design magazine Wallpaper’s annual Architects Directory.
July 16, 2010
The Gödöllő Palace near Budapest will unveil its restoration, which doubles the area open to visitors, in September.
July 16, 2010
The Hungarian city of Szeged’s Thealter International Theatre Festival is marking two important anniversaries this year: its own 20th anniversary and the 70th birthday of the Kossuth Prize-winning poet Ottó Tolnai.
July 16, 2010
The Hungarian spa town of Cserkeszőlő will host its 4th Valiant Days, a celebration of ancient tradition, on July 15-18.
July 15, 2010
Several thousand visitors are expected at the 20th international truck country festival in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged this weekend, the event's chief organiser told MTI on Tuesday.
July 15, 2010
Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole, has accepted an invitation to share the stage with the well known Hungarian flautist Eszter Horgas at a performance in Budapest on July 26.
July 15, 2010
The Hungarian director Pater Sparrow’s science fiction feature 1 will have its North American premiere at Montreal’s FanTasia Festival on July 20.
July 15, 2010